Future Film, Pilot Cohort · June 2026

AI Portfolio
Workshop
For Editors

Build professional portfolio work while learning cinematic production workflows for the next era of post-production.

Live Zoom cohort  ·  Direct access to Carl Cramer  ·  12 professional editors max

A six-week live workshop for professional editors who want to create a polished portfolio piece, learn a repeatable production workflow, and work directly with an Emmy-winning editor and working AI production professional.

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Emmy Award-Winning Instructor AI Artist and Consultant at Lionsgate Live · 6 Weeks · 12 Editors Max Finished Portfolio Work Starts June 17, 2026

What You Leave With

A Finished Piece.
A Repeatable Process.

By the end of six weeks, every student leaves with a finished short-form piece they developed, produced, and edited themselves. That could be a trailer, a commercial, a short film, a music video, or a proof-of-concept piece. The format is yours to choose. The work is real, portfolio-ready, and built to show.

Alongside that finished piece, students leave with a structured, repeatable workflow they can apply to future projects, client work, and their own creative development. The point is not just to make something once. The point is to understand a process well enough to keep using it.

01

A Finished Portfolio Piece

A polished, short-form work of your choosing, developed from your own concept and completed over six weeks. Shareable, showable, and entirely yours.

02

A Repeatable Production Workflow

Carl's story-first, editor-led cinematic process, structured so you can reproduce it. For your next project, for a client, for a pitch, or for your own portfolio.

03

Demonstrated Capability

Visible proof that you can work in this space. Work you can share with studios, agencies, employers, and collaborators as evidence of what you can do.

04

A Professional Community

Ongoing access to the Future Film network of editors and filmmakers navigating the same professional shift with the same craft-first values.

Live Workshop Format

This Is Not
An Online
Course.

This is a live, professional workshop. Closer in spirit to a film lab or a studio mentorship than a self-paced tutorial platform. Every session is live on Zoom. Every assignment comes with instructor guidance. Every student in the room is a working professional.

Sessions are held Wednesday evenings, 5 PM Pacific / 8 PM Eastern.

01
Six Live Sessions with Carl Six 60-minute live Zoom sessions. Direct access to an Emmy-winning editor and active AI production professional. Not a recording. Not a moderator. Carl, live, every session.
02
Weekly Assignments with Instructor Guidance Every session builds on the last. You submit work between sessions, with structured guidance along the way. You are not watching someone else figure it out. You are doing the work yourself, with instructor guidance from someone who has done it professionally.
03
A Cohort of Professional Editors Every student is a working editor or experienced creative professional. The conversation in the room reflects that. You are working alongside peers who bring real craft and real standards to the work.
04
Dedicated Discord Channel A private channel for the cohort. Questions between sessions, work-in-progress sharing, peer feedback, and ongoing conversation with Carl and your fellow students.
05
12 Seats Maximum The cohort is intentionally small. This is a workshop, not a lecture. Every student has a seat at the table and a real presence in the room.

From Carl's Workflow

Concept to
Finished
Piece.

Carl's process is story-first and editorial-led. The images below trace a production from world-building through character development to finished cinematic output, the same arc students follow across six sessions.

World building
Building a visual world before a single shot is framed Stage 1: World Building
Will to Win — scene 1

Stage 2: Character & Scene

Establishing the character in her world

Will to Win — scene 2

Stage 3: Visual Continuity

Same character, different scene, maintaining consistency

Will to Win — scene 3

Stage 4: Sequence Development

Building toward a complete editorial arc

Animated production

Stage 5: Genre & Style

The same workflow applied across different formats and genres

Azri — cinematic scale

Stage 6: Finished Production

Cinematic scale, visual coherence, story-ready output

Every image above was built using the production workflow taught in this workshop, from concept and character through to finished, portfolio-ready output.

Your Instructor

Carl
Cramer

Emmy Award-Winning Editor and Writer

  • 25 years as a film editor and writer across scripted, documentary, and long-form television
  • Post-production at Universal Studios on series including Law and Order
  • Staff writer at Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment
  • AI Artist and Consultant at Lionsgate, working end-to-end from concept to final video asset
  • Lead editor on two feature films releasing this year, with a Writer and Executive Producer credit on one
carlcramer.film ↗ LinkedIn ↗
Carl Cramer Carl Cramer, AI Artist and Consultant at Lionsgate
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Carl created a fully cinematic trailer for Will to Win, built entirely from a screenplay before a single frame of the film had been shot. The producing team used that trailer to communicate the vision of the project and went on to raise a multi-million dollar budget for the film.

Will to Win: AI Proof-of-Concept to Multi-Million Dollar Financing

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"Last year at this time, I had no idea that my career would shift so dramatically, from 25 years of film editing and producing to a career as an AI artist and consultant. Adapting and having to learn so quickly has brought back some of that old insecurity and doubt, but also renewed the fighting spirit."

Carl Cramer

Why This Matters Now

The Work
Is Changing.

Editors who can demonstrate capability in these workflows will have a significant advantage over those who cannot.

Development teams are using AI-generated proof-of-concept trailers to secure financing. Agencies are asking for pitch materials built with emerging production tools. The editors who can deliver that work are going to be the ones who get those conversations.

What makes editors uniquely positioned for this shift is not technical fluency. It is everything they already know. Story instinct. Editorial rhythm. An understanding of pacing, continuity, structure, and performance. Those skills are exactly what produce coherent, professional-looking work in modern production workflows rather than random output.

This workshop helps editors build visible proof of that capability. Finished work that shows they can operate in this space, made from scratch, on their own terms.

Curriculum

Six
Sessions.
One
Finished
Piece.

Schedule

June 17 to July 22, 2026

Wednesday evenings via Zoom · 60 minutes per session

5 PM Pacific / 8 PM Eastern

Methodology

Carl's approach is story-first and editorial-led. Students learn to produce visually coherent, continuous, polished work through disciplined iteration, not random generation. The tools support the process. The process is what you take with you.

01 Introduction and Course Overview June 17 +

Instructor intro and student welcomes. Full overview of the six-week arc. Discussion of storytelling as the foundation of serious production work, with realistic expectations around difficulty, iteration, and creative grit.

Demo of what is possible in Magnific, including still image and animation workflow. Introduction to style selection and the two character creation workflows: Midjourney plus Magnific, and Magnific only.

Homework

Develop a short story concept and experiment with character design. Story submitted to instructor 24 hours before Session 2.

02 Character, Wardrobe and Casting June 24 +

Review of submitted story concepts with group feedback. Deep dive into character creation and wardrobe building, including vertical ratio full-body wardrobe and square ratio character portrait. Workflow for placing characters into wardrobe, creating variations, and building character nodes. Session ends with characters placed onto backgrounds.

Homework

Continue refining characters and wardrobe. Optional: submit a piece for possible showcase at the top of Session 3.

03 Still Image Creation and Set Design July 1 +

Formats, resolution, and aspect ratios. Set design, props, lighting, and camera angles. The challenge of working in 2D space while thinking in 3D. Image fidelity and why the still image holds all directorial information. This section may carry into Session 4.

Homework

Build and submit a key still image or starting frame from your story.

04 Video Generation and Prompting July 8 +

Video formats, frame rates, and aspect ratios. Prompting strategies for different generators. Troubleshooting and iterating. Managing randomness in video output and how a high-fidelity still image reduces it. The relationship between the still image and the final video.

Homework

Generate a rough video clip or short sequence from your story.

05 Editing, Sound Design and Finishing July 15 +

Assembling clips in the Magnific video editor. Adding music, voiceover, and sound effects. Color grading, effects, and final polish. Students work toward their finished piece.

Homework

Complete your finished piece and submit to the instructor.

06 Screening and Cohort Showcase July 22 +

Screening of finished student work. Group feedback and celebration of the cohort's output. This is not a progress check. This is a screening of finished pieces made by working editors over six weeks of real creative work.

The Full Workflow

Story First.
Editorial Led.
Finished Work.

Carl's process treats cinematic production the way editors already think. Story and structure first, tools second, craft throughout. Students learn to produce visually coherent, continuous, polished work through a disciplined creative process, not random prompting.

Development

Story concept and structure

Character design and casting

Wardrobe and visual continuity

Style selection and consistency

Production

Cinematic still image creation

Set design, props, and lighting

Camera angles and shot construction

Video generation and prompt iteration

Post-Production

Editorial assembly

Sound design and music

Voiceover and dialogue

Color grading and finishing

Who This Is For

Built for
Professional
Editors.

This workshop was built specifically for editors who want to make something real. Not watch demos. Not study theory. Build a finished portfolio piece using a practical, repeatable production workflow, alongside other serious creative professionals.

Workshop Details

The Essentials

Starts

June 17

2026, Pilot cohort

Format

Live Zoom

6 sessions over 6 weeks
Wednesdays, 5 PM Pacific / 8 PM Eastern

Tuition

$400

Full cohort, pilot pricing

Cohort

12 Max

Cohort 1 is full. Join the waitlist for Cohort 2.

What's Included

  • Six 60-minute live sessions with Carl Cramer on Zoom
  • Weekly assignments with instructor guidance
  • Private Discord channel for the cohort, open throughout the six weeks
  • Peer interaction, work-in-progress sharing, and accountability with other professional editors
  • Software access guidance for Magnific and Midjourney
  • A finished, portfolio-ready piece of your choosing by the end of Session 6
  • Ongoing access to the Future Film professional community

Future Film

A Professional
Creative
Network.

Future Film is an ongoing community of editors and filmmakers exploring emerging storytelling and production workflows together. Through live events, screenings, discussions, collaboration, and experimentation, the community is built around craft-first creative professionals navigating the same professional shift.

This workshop is the first structured offering from Future Film. Workshop students become part of that community and stay connected to a network of serious professionals who are doing the same work.

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Cohort 1 · Sold Out · June 2026

Cohort 1
is Full.

The first cohort is at capacity. Join the waitlist and we will reach out when the next cohort opens or a spot becomes available.

Questions? david@futurefilm.club